Tweet each of us like the water of a melted snowflake a tiny lake existing for a moment –Terry Chitwood Impermanence Meditating on impermanence, my ideas dissolve in the sunlight of a new dawn. My thoughts like shadows scatter before the approaching light. A temple bell rings inside my heart. The song of the skylark…
Category Archives: Death
Death as Teacher
Tweet Life is a journey. Death is a return to the earth. The universe is like an inn. The passing years are like dust. –Buddhist Poem This poem is used to describe the Buddhist concept of impermanence (The World’s Religions by Huston Smith, pp. 116-117). Of course, we are constantly changing . . . our…
Through Death’s Doorway
Tweet Pre-death dreams and visions can contain images of light. “. . . Light-as-divine-guide also emerged in the dream of John Sanford’s father, when a bright light shines through from a window behind the stopped mantelpiece clock, revealing a ‘brilliant path’ that draws him forward, away from this world” (Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to…
Death: The Beginning of Life
Tweet This article is dedicated in particular to Susan Niebur, four-time cancer survivor and presently in hospice contemplating her journey beyond death, and to others who approach death . . . ultimately, all us. “During the fiercest period of her chemotherapy, my friend Melanie often asked me to speak poems to help her through the…
-
-
________________
Add this to your site -
